Blending Classes With Creative Student Work
Discover how John Vigna and Annabel Lyon leveraged peer feedback and self-reflection in their Creative Writing course.
“A Teaching Manifesto on the Assembly:” Co-facilitating Collaborative, Participatory Learning in SPAN 280: Revolution!
Discover how Brianne Orr-Álvarez encouraged students to lead and participate in peer inquiry and dialogue about complex ethical and political issues.
Blending Large Online Lectures: Learning Activities to Encourage Active Student Participation
Discover how Allen Sens incorporated active participation techniques to help broaden the students’ practice and competencies.
Bridging the gap between academic theory and professional practice with Arts ePortfolios
Discover how four Arts instructors integrated Arts ePortfolios into the classroom.
Data Analysis and Statistics with Stata: Online Resources for Undergraduate Programs
Nisha Malhotra (Economics) and team created modular online resources to strengthen students’ understanding of statistical concepts and their application in Stata across economics and related courses.
Our Cheating Hearts: Academic Integrity Curriculum Design in First-Year Arts Programs
Laurie McNeill (First-Year Programs / English) and team developed materials to help support students and faculty to foster more robust understandings of ethical research, writing, and learning practices.
Jenny Peterson in Political Science uses active learning to enrich student engagement with course material
Jenny Peterson discusses active learning in political science through gallery walks, simulations, debates, reflection, and debriefing, including benefits, challenges, student engagement, large-class teaching, and knowledge creation.
Michael Griffin in Philosophy investigates pedagogies that support the growth of citizenship skills
Michael Griffin discusses research on humanities teaching, signature pedagogies, and citizenship skills, measuring perspective-taking, empathy, intercultural fluency, tolerance of ambiguity, integrative complexity, classroom debate, and written feedback.
Allen Sens and Matt Yedlin Bridge Arts and Science to Explore Nuclear Arms Control
Interdisciplinarity is what we need more of in the university…more connection between different faculties and different ways of thinking.
Leveraging UBC Wiki to cultivate student engagement
Discover how two Arts instructors leveraged UBC Wiki in the classroom.